Not everything can be fish. Some things are collages with clay.
Damn these pics hit.
Sunfish
Sophie’s sunfish. She will defend Mola Mola. They aren’t colorful enough for me to defend, but I will learn about them.
Dana’s fish in sun. Test tiles came from the kiln and I love them. Pelegreeno and blue is most fish ready.
I made more fish yesterday and glazed some more today. I should be thinking of how to track fish but maybe later. I’ve been painting underglaze on reclaim bowls I find and decided to be more painterly with some of the underglaze on the fish. My earlier attempts to use underglaze on my fish haven’t been as loose as this one. I like the direction this is going.
You can find two sunfish in this photo.
And also in this one, as they have dorsal and pectoral fins instead of caudal fins.
I’m enjoying this process— the people I meet, how the fish change, how I explain the changes.
I also love pulling things from the reclaim because it feels like stealing, or how silly and inadvertently sexual throwing clay is, or how glazes interact and befuddle me. It’s all surprising and playful at the moment. It leads to beautiful things— like this bowl I gave to Emma.
We will end with a moody apple photo of this baddie.
Kiln haul
Made these ornaments for Millicent and Madeline. Jacob too I guess but he doesn’t scream Christmas.
I think Millie will say something about monetizing these and I’ll say something about capitalism. But damn they be beautiful.
Next some fish from the glaze kiln, quickly I’m over the combo of blue and gittas blue. Spent the night making test tile combinations (and recording what I did so I’m not a little bitch).
Something unknown happened with a flower bowl. Will sacrifice it to the classroom.
These excite me most. I’ve forgotten what I did for the glazes except that hideous one (I mixed pink and transparent). I imagine them on a wall, will have to ask Evi how she hung her fish.
I was trying to figure out how to collage with clay. They’re beautiful, I can’t get over them.
This guy obvi has chun glaze but I’m not sure which way he orients.
To end: proof of notetaking. Someday I’ll look back at this turning point in my artistic practice.
Sunday’s fish
Making friends in the clay world (this will be considered a repost)
today’s fish
Making friends in the clay world
Ceramicist (but with a lisp)
Glazed all of these bitches. I mixed one glaze with another (transparent and Pete’s cranberry, transparent and blue) for some of the abstract underglaze pieces— they aren’t fish. The fish I did mix glazes as well, but by layering.
I don’t know how that’ll turn out. Glaze feels like a leap of faith to me, instead of the science it’s supposed to be.
I look at other peoples shelves because they make pottery and it’s beautiful and magical. I also periodically clock the items in lost and found, but that’s because I’m curious to what gets considered lost. Every visit I check each bin of reclaim, I’m curious to what gets considered inadequate.
Shrimp, shrimp, shrimp.
Just a beautiful bowl with unknown processes. Seeing something like this will ask me to make better art, with more experiments.
Fish along the way
If I make 1000 fish and a significant amount break, do they still count towards my total?
Unbroken fish, some needing to be dremmeled. Various glazes I recorded improperly.
Broken or inaccessible fish due to the rod. Same improper glazing notation.
The pots, that right one be ugly af.